Expanding Spectrum of Toxoplasma gondii: Thymoma and Toxoplasmic Encephalitis.

Abstract:

:In this brief report, we describe a 76-year-old patient with thymoma who underwent craniotomy for a left parietal lobe mass with pathologic findings consistent with Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis in the absence of any features of thymoma with immunodeficiency/Good's syndrome. His clinical course suggested likely Toxoplasma reactivation.

journal_name

Open Forum Infect Dis

authors

Chastain DB,Sams JI,Steele GM,Lowder LO,Franco-Paredes C

doi

10.1093/ofid/ofy163

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Has Abstract

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2018-07-07 00:00:00

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ofy163

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7

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2328-8957

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ofy163

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5

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